Sá, Regina
Roquette, Rita
Rebecchi, Andrea
Matias, Judite
Rocha, Jorge
Buffoli, Maddalena
Capolongo, Stefano
Ribeiro, Ana Isabel
Nunes, Baltazar
Dias, Carlos
Sousa Uva, Mafalda
Funding for this research was provided by:
Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal (UIDB/00295/2020 and UIDP/00295/2020, CEECIND/02386/2018)
Article History
Received: 4 December 2023
Accepted: 16 April 2024
First Online: 23 April 2024
Declarations
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: INSEF was carried out in accordance with the guidelines established in the Helsinki Declaration and was ethically approved by the National Data Protection Commission (Portugal), the five Regional Health Administrations and the two Regional Health Administrations of the autonomous regions of Madeira and the Azores. All participants received written information. They were informed about the purpose of the study and were informed that their participation was voluntary. Informed written consent was obtained by all participants, including authorization for the secondary use of anonymized data for future scientific investigations, as can be seen in the INSEF 2015 methodological report [CitationRef removed]. The use secondary data from INSEF for this study was approved by the specific committee of the survey (23/07/2021). Ethical approval for this study was granted from the Regional Health Administration of the Centre of Portugal (ARSC) Ethics Committee (23/2020) and from Ethics Committee for Health of the National Institute of Health (July/2021).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.